Textile calculations: being a guide to calculations relating to the construction of all kinds of yarns and fabrics (1896)
Posselt, Emanuel Anthony, 1858- · Philadelphia, E. A. Posselt · leaf 75
; Fig. 3 represents mohair; Fig. 4 represents cotton yarn ; Fig. 5 represents silk yam. (57) 58 An examination of these five illustrations shows the silk yarn to be the smoothest, followed inrotation, getting gradually rougher by cotton, mohair and worsted, until reaching the woolen thread… … Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 compared to fabrics made out of other materials. In addition to the roughness of the surface of a thread,we must also take into consideration the pliability of the fibres, for the softer the pile of the yarn theless the chafing will influence the strength of the…
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